A 4 door fridge is 2 doors too many, and not enough drawers. Rethink your choice. It isn’t ergonomic.

LOL. I'd go a little further and say it is 3 doors too many. But then, that just displays my utter distaste for French door refrigerators. I find them singularly impractical. But I fully realize that there are lots of consumers who love their French door models.

Personally, I think you do much better with a single door column, such as what SubZero, Miele, Thermador, Bluestar, or True will happily sell you. I prefer an all-fridge and and all-freezer, but if that isn't possible, then there are options that keep the single large door and combine it with a freezer (drawer).

I didn't think we'd have to go there (our decision about the refrigerator).... but okay.

42" built-in refrigerator offerings are limited - at least, for the look and layout we established early on. We were initially thinking Sub-Zero, but ultimately chose Dacor - partly because of the french door refrigerator portion (although its placed quite high on this unit) and partly because of the aesthetics (the fridge/freezer line matched the counter line very well). As I mentioned, there are no other handles on this wall.

So, given that this is what we've already chosen - we are left with the four refrigerator handles.... Simple stainless steel tubular seems appropriate.... Sub-Zero makes some of the best and offers them in 3/4" (L= 21.25"; 24.25"; 27.25" & 33.25") and 1" (L= 24.31"; 30.21"; 36.31" & 44.25").

Thank you for your responses and any help with the handles would be great!

Handles are such a difficult problem. I spent weeks researching them, and I was (almost) ready to drop $1000 for a custom-made handle, because I couldn't find anything that I really liked.

Eventually, I got lucky though and discovered that the Miele appliance handle, when turned vertical, is exactly what I needed. I don't believe it is meant for this application, but it works beautifully for us. Also, it was an outright bargain compared to many of the other options I had looked at. It "only" costs $150.

Unfortunately, I don't think it would be a great fit for your needs.

I can only encourage you to keep looking and to keep looking outside the box. Check with other brands, check with cabinet manufacturers, and if everything else fails, see what it would cost to custom-make a handle. Ask your cabinet maker or cabinet manufacturer for recommendations as well.

Appliance handles are a strange market. You'd think this should be easy to sort out, but I found it surprisingly challenging. I do like the results though, when you find something you like:

Thanks M! You have described our current place and time perfectly!..... It would almost be easier if we DID have handles somewhere else in the kitchen to copy. You have a beautiful kitchen - I can only hope we end up as lucky.

Just a layout comment. You've got symmetry by centering the cooktop. I'm not seeing enough countertop workspace. This could be helped by going to a deeper counter. Say 28-30". Or off centering the cooktop. Induction also gives you a flat surface. . . . And if your frig is separated from the right wall by what looks like a 4" spacer the handles may cause an opening restriction. Some of the space on the left end of the run if relocated would help.

Yep... All the "issues" front and center! LOL... On the left side of this sapele "cooking" wall is an open display bookcase facing the dining room, and on the right side of the cooking wall is a dividing wall (flush with the cabinetry) separating the family room, that we realized needed light switches and a place for artwork, as this is all part of the home's core... Planning started simple 30/30/30/30/30/36 (pantry, oven, counter, cooktop, counter, fridge)... Ended up as shown. As it is, we needed to remove a redundant stairway and have modified a few other "parts" of the home's inner core to give us the little over 16 feet needed. Across from the the sapele wall is a somewhat more standard sink, prep and counter areas.

To be honest I don’t like panelled appliances a kitchen is a kitchen it has appliances and I have honestly never though about the handles on them either. I too prefer columns and 4 doors is at least 2 too many . I also dislike french door ones the stuff you want is always on the other side Since you are doing panel IMO the handle should match the rest of the cabinet handles

I like paneled appliances. They can very organically fit into a kitchen. I personally don't like appliances that pretend to be cabinets though. So, we opted for a built-in rather than an integrated fridge and then recessed it to be flush with the rest of the cabinets. Very happy with that choice.

As for the overall design of your kitchen, I have similar concerns. It's really hard to tell from the one picture, but if feels as if there are a lot of details that aren't quite right and that will come back and haunt you. Designing a pretty and functional kitchen isn't easy. Not every kitchen designer or architect is up to that. Just adding up 30 plus 30 plus 30 plus ... doesn't make for a good design.

I don't know where you are in the process, but if you have the option, I would post a full floor plan and ask for more input. There could very well be a bunch of changes that you will be very happy if you made them.

we are under construction... i was really just needing help with the handles.

thank you for all of your responses - none of which were about the placement of handles on a paneled refrigerator....

Would it be possible to use the wood of the cabinets as handles on the fridge? Either a turned handle on a mounting base or something like a mini I-beam out of the cabinet wood? That way you would have the functionality of the handle, but it would disappear on the wood background.

Are you wondering where to place the handles?

Must you have handles? Isn’t there some way to fashion a panel with a hand grip hidden on its side that you can tug to open? My SZ is panel ready but has no panel and no pull. I tug on the frame and it opens.

Hi. What did you do for handles? I love the fridge, we just Purchased, and need handles. Thanks. Beautiful work. Thanks god someone else doesn’t think “white shaker cabinets and white quartz counter” are not the only option.

Thank you for your kind words - and yes, the world already have enough kitchens with white shaker cabinets!

We ended up using the Sub-Zero refrigerator handles - which really was a tough decision - as these are the only handles showing in the entire kitchen. Every cabinet door and/or drawer are push to open. The Wolf steam oven and convection oven are handle free, as well as the Thermador dishwasher (which is a "knock-knock"). Super clean design, which we feel shows off and melds well with the rest of our modern home.